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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:10:45 -0400
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Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> writes:
> Your explanation is clear, however the name max_parallel_workers makes it
> sound like that parallelising an operation is all about workers.  Yes it
> depends a lot on the number of workers allocated for parallel operation,
> but that is not everything.  I think calling it max_parallelism as
> suggested by Alvaro upthread suits better than max_parallel_workers.

I don't think that's a good direction at all.  This entire discussion is
caused by the fact that it's not very clear what "max_parallel_degree"
measures.  Fixing that problem by renaming the variable to something that
doesn't even pretend to tell you what it's counting is not an improvement.

			regards, tom lane


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